Probe into checkpoint shooting

A probe has been launched after British soldiers shot dead a suspected suicide bomber in Iraq.

The Ministry of Defence said the man was fired on as he drove towards a Black Watch checkpoint near their Camp Dogwood base two weeks ago.

Though there is no suggestion sentries did anything wrong, the Army is investigating whether the correct procedure was followed.

The news comes alongside the discovery by US marines in southern Fallujah of the cell, complete with metal cage, where murdered hostage Ken Bigley was forced to beg for his life.

Meanwhile, American cameraman Kevin Sites, who last week filmed a US marine killing an injured Iraqi fighter in a Fallujah mosque, today said he broadcast his footage of the shooting because "something was not right".

The NBC freelancer said he felt the "deep pit of my stomach" as the marine pulled his trigger on a man the soldier claimed was faking death.

"I can't know what was in the mind of the marine," Sites says on his personal website. "He's the only one who does."